Salvatore Farina (10 January 1846 – 15 December 1918) was an Italian novelist whose style of sentimental humor has been compared to that of Charles Dickens.
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.[1]
Life
Born in the Sardinian town of Sorso, he studied law at Turin and Pavia before moving to Milan and taking up literature, remaining there for the rest of his life.
The late nineteenth century English novelist George Gissing thought that his novella Si Muore, read by him in January 1890, was 'far more interesting than I expected; in fact excellently written'.[2]
Works
Il tesoro di Donnina (1873)
Amore bendato (1875)
Capelli biondi (1876)
Mio figlio! (1877-1881)
Si Muore: L'ultima battaglia di Prete Agostino (1886)
Frutti proibiti
Un tiranno al bagni di mare
Cuore e blasone
Due amori
Amore ha cento occhi
Per la vita e per la morte
La mia giornata, a trilogy:
Dall'alba al meriggio (1910)
Care ombre (1913)
Dal meriggio al tramonto (1915)
References
Convegno Salvatore Farina: la figura e il ruolo a 150 anni dalla nascita (1996 : Sorso, Italy)
^Coustillas, Pierre ed. London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England: the Diary of George Gissing, Novelist. Brighton: Harvester Press,1978, p.202.
